Cisco unveiled two SD-WAN solutions, Cisco SD-WAN vAnalytics based on Viptela technology and Meraki Insight. The new WAN monitoring products will help differentiate partners offering managed SD-WAN solutions, according to the San Jose, Calif.-based networking vendor.

Encore Technology Group President and CTO Michael Knight said partners looking to break into the MSSP space should examine where their talent is today, what they can do that's repeatable, and what they have to change.

Pax8 told MSPs at the XChange Solution Provider conference that Stax Designer also makes it easy to cross-sell and upsell clients based on the kind of application bundles that their peers are purchasing.

The DevOps specialist, a close AWS partner, announced a huge deal last month to speed the Pentagon's adoption of cloud and modernize legacy systems. Oracle challenged the bidding process and the government has backtracked.

CenturyLink's longtime CEO, Glen Post, is moving up his retirement date by nearly eight months, and is turning down the position as CenturyLink chairman. Post will be succeeded by former Level 3 CEO Jeff Storey, CenturyLink's president and COO.